News Stories for 2023

The Wealthiest Californians are Leaving the State, Hurting the Economy, Statistics Confirm 221
20% of America's Plants and Animals are At Risk of Extinction 56
How Electric Cars are Already Upending America 472
2023 and 'the Eternal Struggle Between Proprietary and Open Source Software' 55
Massive Waves Pound Some California Coast Cities, Causing Floods and Injuries 78
UK Startup Develops Low Carbon Jet Fuel Made From Human Waste 41
Social Media Companies Made $11 Billion In US Ad Revenue From Minors, Study Finds 26
Boeing Urges Airlines To Inspect 787 Max Planes For Possible Loose Bolts 38
First New US Nuclear Reactor Since 2016 is Now in Operation 161
40% of US Electricity Is Now Emissions-Free 129
New US Immigration Rules Spur More Visa Approvals For STEM Workers 102
Retailers To Pay For Consumers' E-waste Recycling From 2026 Under UK Plans 47
Amazon Plans To Make Its Own Hydrogen To Power Vehicles 77
India To Block Crypto Exchange Binance, Kraken Websites 4
FDA Warns Amazon Over Supplements With Undeclared and Potentially Harmful Ingredients 49
Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm? 205
US Engine Maker Will Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Claims of Emissions Cheating 100
US Department of Education Spending $4 Million To Teach 3,450 Kids CS Using Minecraft 38
What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Is Working On It 89
Top Scientists on the One Mystery on Earth They'd Like To Solve 64
A Sinking Nation is Offered an Escape Route. But There's a Catch. 99
UK Students Launch Barclays 'Career Boycott' Over Bank's Climate Policies 47
The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work 59
Joe Biden Plans To Ban Logging in US Old-Growth Forests in 2025 181
Ski Resorts Battle For a Future as Snow Declines in Climate Crisis 255
Apple Watch Import Ban Takes Effect After Biden Administration Passes on Veto 122
Your Kid Prefers YouTube To Netflix. That's a Problem for Streamers. 52
How a Surge in Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon 25
Nigerian Central Bank Lifts Ban on Crypto Trading 21
These Are the Jobs That Keep Older Americans Working 129
California's Population Dropped Again, Census Data Shows 222
China Is Stealing AI Secrets To Turbocharge Spying, US Says 50
To Stem North Korea's Missiles Program, White House Looks To Its Hackers 19
Will AI Be a Disaster for the Climate? 100
FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning 'Don't Let Your Tools Control You' 25
CNN Shares Hopeful Signs for Our Fight Against Climate Change 130
US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say 84
Bill Gates Predicts 'Supercharged' AI Innovation on Climate, Healthcare Issues 41
Livestock Surprise Scientists with Their Complex, Emotional Minds 73
Are Phones Making the World's Students Dumber? 123
Apple Explores AI Deals With News Publishers 6
OpenAI In Talks To Raise New Funding At $100 Billion Valuation 31
Microsoft President Brad Smith Quietly Leaves Board of Nonprofit Code.org 4
Biden Administration Unveils Hydrogen Tax Credit Plan To Jump-Start Industry 104
US Commits To Landing an International Astronaut On the Moon 49
Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel 136
Women In IT Are On a 283-Year March To Parity, BCS Warns 197
UK Police To Be Able To Run Face Recognition Searches on 50 Million Driving Licence Holders 24
Why the US Is Pumping More Oil Than Any Country in History 207
Pakistan Uses Artificial Rain in Attempt To Cut Pollution Levels 29
38% of VCs Disappeared From Dealmaking in 2023 36
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Methods To Stop Digital Surveillance In Schools? 115
US Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards For Children 25
New York City Council Member-Elect Used AI To Answer Questions 29
New Regulations Will Turn California Wastewater To Drinking Water 109
UK Officials Caught Napping Ahead of 2G and 3G Doomsday 61
AI Cannot Be Patent 'Inventor,' UK Supreme Court Rules in Landmark Case 29
Hurricane Larry Dropped Over 100,000 Microplastics Per Square Meter Per Day, Study Finds 74
Ministry of Justice Plans To Digitize Then Destroy 100 Million Historical Wills 88
Canada Lays Out Plan To Phase Out Sales of Gas-Powered Cars, Trucks By 2035 405
Meta's News Ban In Canada Remains As Online News Act Goes Into Effect 147
UK To Introduce Carbon Tax on Steel Imports from 2027 62
India's Flooded Farmlands Mask a Water Crisis Deep Underground 106
Alphabet, States Reach $700 Million Deal in Google Play Feud 20
Volcano Erupts in Iceland Near Power Plant, in 'Worst-Case Scenario' 111
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default 47
Internet Archive: Digital Lending Is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement 50
US Lawmakers Warn Biden To Probe EU Targeting of Tech Firms 89
Lawmakers Push DOJ To Investigate Apple Following Beeper Shutdowns 55
Southwest Will Pay a $140 Million Fine For Its Meltdown During the 2022 Holidays 45
Documents Reveal Hidden Problems at Russia's Nuclear Powerhouse 132
Apple and Amazon Release Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Ads - Both With Beatles-Related Songs 23
Could Hot Rocks Help Solve the Climate Crisis? 110
Iterate.ai Open Sources a New AI System That Can Recognize Weapons 42
Elon Musk Is Funding a New School In Austin, Texas 167
Can We Help Fight the Climate Crisis with Stand-Up Comedy? 84
US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds 23
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Help Teachers Incorporate AI Into CS Education 16
Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 138
Biggest Solar Flare In Years Temporarily Disrupts Radio Signals On Earth 28
Firefox's Android Browser Adds 450+ New Extensions 22
SEC Denies Coinbase Petition for New Crypto Rules 11
Earliest Version of Mickey Mouse Set To Become Public Domain in 2024 116
Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees 155
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests 55
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim At AI Freeloading 73
Low-Frequency Sound Can Reveal That a Tornado Is On Its Way 54
OpenAI, Axel Springer Strike Unprecedented Deal To Offer News In ChatGPT 23
Every Homeopathic Eye Drop Should Be Pulled Off the Market, FDA Says 177
COP28 Nations Agree for First Time To Transition Away From Fossil Fuels 74
UK Proposes Capping Some Visa, Mastercard Fees 63
Study Shows 38% of Java Apps Still Affected By Log4Shell 25
OpenAI's Nonprofit Arm Showed Revenue of $45,000 Last Year 20
Solar and Wind To Top Coal Power In US For First Time In 2024 67
US Climate Bill 'Ignites New Zeal' Around the World for Government Climate Efforts 47
US Expects To Make Multi-Billion Chips Awards Within the Next Year 13
The Climate Summit Starts To Crack a Tough Nut: Emissions From Food 90
More Than 15% of Teens Say They're On YouTube or TikTok 'Almost Constantly' 70
Cop28 Draft Agreement Calls for Fossil Fuel Cuts But Avoids 'Phase-Out' 73
Why the US Needs a Moonshot Mentality for AI - Led by the Public Sector 76
New York Joins IBM, Micron in $10 Billion Chip Research Complex 17
US Debates Data Policy To Avoid a Fragmented Global Internet 23
Mistral Says Mixtral, Its New Open Source LLM, Matches or Outperforms Llama 2 70B and GPT3.5 on Most Benchmarks 20
UK's First Carbon Capture Plant Turns CO2 Into Jet Fuel 119
Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed 20
Is There a Mass Exodus of Former Silicon Valley Tech Companies From Austin, Texas? 228
Saudi-Led Fight Against COP28 Deal 'Outrageous', Shows 'Panic' Officials Say 151
SpaceX Will Help US Space Force Launch Its Secretive X-37B Space Plane 36
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media 174
Harvard Accused of Bowing to Meta By Ousted Disinformation Scholar in Whistleblower Complaint 148
How AlmaLinux's Community Supported RHEL Binary Compatibility 41
Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign 414
US Postal Service Warns Rural Mail Carriers: Don't Publicly Blame Delays on Amazon 119
FDA Approves CRISPR-Based Medicine For Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease 43
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
'Unprecedented Mass Coral Bleaching' Expected in 2024, Says Expert 50
UK Class-Action Targets Mobile Phone Operators With $4.15 Billion Damages Claim 11
Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels To Hit Record High 70
UK Signals Microsoft's Partnership With OpenAI Faces Scrutiny 6
FTC Tries Again To Stop Microsoft's Already-Closed Deal For Activision 37
Apple Launches MLX Machine-Learning Framework For Apple Silicon 31
UK Says Russia Targeted Officials in Email-Hacking Campaign 41
India Calls Out Inequalities at COP28 Climate Summit 85
Veteran Editors Notepad++ and Geany Hit Milestone Versions 21
America's Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds 99
Earth on Verge of Five Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Warn 234
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications 33
Harvard, MIT and UPenn's Presidents Should 'Resign in Disgrace', Bill Ackman Says 503
Western US Wildfires Undo Two Decades of Air Quality Progress 32
ChatGPT Tops Wikipedia's Most-Viewed Articles of 2023 List 12
US Students' Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment 131
Amazon Latest To Criticise Microsoft in UK Cloud Market Probe 6
Firefox On the Brink? 239
The UK Tries, Once Again, To Age-Gate Pornography 95
YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Plane For Views Is Headed To Federal Prison 122
US Issues Warning To Nvidia, Urging To Stop Redesigning Chips For China 86
Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator 18
First Results From the World's Biggest Basic Income Experiment 168
US Joins in Other Nations in Swearing Off Coal Power To Clean the Climate 204
NotePad++ 20th Anniversary Edition Includes New 'Multi-Edit' Feature 56
Plants May Be Absorbing 20% More CO2 Than We Thought, New Models Find 81
The Annual Emacs Conference 'EmacsConf' is Livestreaming Now 53
Are Amazon Packages Disrupting Mail Services in Some Small Towns? 164
OpenZFS Fixes Data Corruption Issue 39
Why Mexico Wants You to Virtually Adopt an Axolotl Salamander 25
Investing $30 Billion, the UAE Announces the World's Largest Climate-Focused Investment Fund 62
US Announces AI Hackathons to Strengthen Critical Mineral Supply Chains 16
Merriam-Webster's Word For 2023 Is 'Authentic' 45
Michigan Installs First Wireless EV Charging Road In US 97
Mystery Customer For Palmer Luckey's Aircraft-Killing Drone Is US Special Forces 32
Meta Says There's Been No Downside To Sharing AI Technology 30
Adobe's Buy of Figma Is 'Likely' Bad For Developers, Rules UK Regulator 9
Local Governments Overwhelmed By Tennis-Pickleball Turf Wars, Documents Show 120
Genetic Data On 500,000 Volunteers In UK To Be Released For Scientific Study 18
Firefox for Android is Getting Over 400 More Extensions in December 25
Apple Pulls Plug On Goldman Credit-Card Partnership 41
Henry Kissinger, American Diplomat and Nobel Winner, Dead at 100 155
Roundcube Open-Source Webmail Software Merges With Nextcloud 14
Canadian Government Reaches Deal With Google On Online News Act 50
Nvidia CEO Says US Will Take Years To Achieve Chip Independence 121
'Global Science is Splintering Into Two - And This is Becoming a Problem' 168
Deal To Keep 1.5C Hopes Alive is Within Reach, Says Cop28 President 218
Files Suggest Climate Summit's Leader Is Using Event To Promote Fossil Fuels 139
American Airlines To Turn 10K Tons of CO2 Into Buried Carbon Blocks 100
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers 45
YouTube Is Getting Into Games, Too 22
Cheaper Microscope Could Bring Protein Mapping Technique To the Masses 10
After 151 Years, Popular Science Will No Longer Offer a Magazine 40
Germany To Compensate Power Users Hit by Grid Bottlenecks 100
Amazon Tops UPS and FedEx To Become Biggest US Delivery Business 68
US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement To Make AI 'Secure by Design' 36
Could Airports Make Hydrogen Work As Fuel? 168
Fewer People Moving in California Are Moving Into the State Than Anywhere Else 265
The US Military's AI 'Swarm' Initiatives Speed Pace of Hard Decisions About Autonomous Weapons 70
Microsoft, Uber, Dell CEOs Consider Government-Funded Stock Funds for Children 149
US Energy Department Funds Next-Gen Semiconductor Projects to Improve Power Grids 20
Continuing Commitment to Open Access, CERN Launches New Open Source Program Office 6
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
As Doctor Who Turns 60, the TARDIS Flies Again Tonight 53
Brazil Signs On To Global Climate Deal To Triple Renewable Energy 56
ECB Chief Lagarde Admits Her Son Lost Crypto Cash 61
World's Biggest Iceberg on the Move After 30 Years 35
Toxic Air Killed More Than 500,000 People in EU in 2021, Data Shows 109
Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, But Emissions May be Twice as Deadly 83
Office Landlords Can't Get a Loan Anymore 229
Airlines Will Make a Record $118 Billion in Extra Fees this Year 200
Aftershocks Can Occur Centuries After Original Earthquake, Says Study 37
World's Richest 1% Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds, Report Finds 214
FCC Proposes Ban On Cable and Satellite Early Termination Fees 47
Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Canadian Government Could Involve Data From 1999 4
Forest Service Plans Carbon Dioxide Storage on Federal Lands 108
Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Agrees To Step Down, Plead Guilty 42
CS Teachers Panic as Replit Pulls the Plug on Educational IDE 66
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 212
A Secret Google Deal Let Spotify Completely Bypass Android's App Store Fees 22
FreeBSD 14 Released 38
FDA Considers First CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment That May Cure Sickle Cell 39
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access To Trillions of US Phone Records 104
Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default 32
Venmo, Cash App Users Sue Apple Over Peer-To-Peer Payment Fees 24
US Seeks More than $4 Billion From Binance To End Criminal Case 35
World Facing 'Hellish' 3C of Climate Heating, UN Warns Before Cop28 279
US Autoworkers End Strike with Pay Raises and a Chance to Unionize EV Battery Plants 145
OpenAI Fiasco: Emmett Shear Becomes Interim OpenAI CEO as Altman Talks Break Down 73
The IMF Launches 'Central Bank Digital Currency' Handbook, Says CBDCs Could Someday Replace Cash 77
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form 'High Performance Software Foundation' 5
The FSF Condemns Unauthorized Derivatives of GNU Licenses 53
Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland 75
Why Bill Gates Remains Hopeful about Innovative New Climate Solutions 64
Is 'Disney Pinnacle' Preparing to Be the Next Big NFT Failure? 37
US Space Force Monitors Satellites in the 'Robotic Battlefield' of Space 15
Why US Women Now Live Almost 6 Years Longer Than Men 191
USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map Shows Half the Country Has Shifted 42
Canada Court Overturns Government Ruling That Some Plastics Are Toxic 35
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI 62
EU Allows Use of Controversial Weedkiller Glyphosate for 10 More Years 43
Almost No One Pays a 6% Real-Estate Commission - Except Americans 144
One-Third of US Newspapers As of 2005 Will Be Gone By 2024 109
Google News Removing Magazine Support In December 2023 7
UK Will Refrain From Regulating AI 'in the Short Term' 10
UK Approves World's First CRISPR-Based Medicine 21
FCC Can Now Punish Telecom Providers For Charging Customers More For Less 75
Prices For Offshore Wind Power To Rise By 50% 188
Google Paid $8 Billion To Make Its Apps Default On Samsung Phones 32
Firefox Going To Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default 72
EU Agrees Law To Curb Methane Emissions From Fossil Fuel Industry 34
A Supernova 'Destroyed' Some of Earth's Ozone For a Few Minutes In 2022 53
YouTube Adapts Its Policies For the Coming Surge of AI Videos 20
Delhi Plans To Unleash Cloud Seeding in Its Battle Against Deadly Smog 35
US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not To Ram Through NSA Spying Powers 35
US Inflation Falls To 3.2% in October 214
Japan To Create $6.6 Billion Fund To Develop Outer Space Industry 22
The Lego-Like Way To Get CO2 Out of the Atmosphere 200
Zelle Begins Refunds For Imposter Scams After Government Pressure 24
Countries Meet in Kenya To Thrash Out Global Plastic Pollution Treaty 30
US Pledges Work Toward More Airwaves for Wireless Providers Facing Surging 5G Demand 57
America's First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility Opens in California 206
Is Capitalism Dead? Yanis Varoufakis Argues Capitalists are Now Vassals to 'Techno-Feudalists' 148
How 'Hour of Code' Will Teach Students About Issues with AI 17
Domestic Cats Have Wiped Out the Scottish Wildcat. Only 'Hybrid Swarm' Remains 45
Ottawa Paid Nearly $670,000 for KPMG's Advice on Cutting Consultant Costs 46
US Debt Interest Bill Rockets Past a Cool $1 Trillion a Year 224
Maine Government Says Data Breach Affects 1.3 Million Residents 40
First Planned Small Nuclear Reactor Plant In the US Has Been Cancelled 203
Google Only Improves Products Under Pressure, US Argues 29
Meta Taps Hugging Face For Startup Accelerator To Spur Adoption of Open Source AI Models 8
Canonical Reveals More Details About Ubuntu Core Desktop 22
Data Broker's 'Staggering' Sale of Sensitive Info Exposed in Unsealed FTC Filing 30
2023 on Track To Be the Hottest Year on Record, Say Scientists 166
The World's Largest Aircraft Breaks Cover in Silicon Valley 121

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